What is the Gibon™ font?
Gibon draws inspiration from the fascinating comic book universe, inhabited not only by many legendary superheroes, monsters and superbadass antiheroes, but also by its own legendary typefaces.
Every cartoonist and hand letterer needs a pencil, a T-square and on and on. For digital lettering, books Gibon is an option. This handy toolkit helps you easily letter your comic strips, but even if you have nothing to do with cartooning, this bundle can simply add some comic book feel to your design or make some noise with layered sound effects. More…
The basic font for speech balloon inking is Gibon Lettering, while Gibon Bold and Heavy let you emphasize certain text. Gibon Bold is further developed as a multilayer type where different styles are designed to be overlaid on top of each other, letting you work with built-in shadows, 3D effects and outlines to create striking SFX.
Gibon Balloons offers different types of layered speech balloons and a few halftone patterns.
The OpenType contextual alternate feature is set to automatically apply the random effect using two sets of glyphs. Traditionally, comic books are lettered in caps only, which explains why Gibon is an all caps font. To easily access alternate characters they are encoded as lowercase letters.
For example, type the uppercase “I” to access the crossbar “I” and the lowercase “i” to access the crossbar-less “I”. Turn on stylistic set number one to use only crossbar-less “I”.
Gibon™ Font families
The Gibon™ includes the following font families:
- Gibon Lettering
- Gibon Bold
- Gibon Bold 3D
- Gibon Bold 3D Bottom
- Gibon Bold Bottom
- Gibon Bold Fill
- Gibon Bold Fill Gradient
- Gibon Bold Fill Striped 1
- Gibon Bold Fill Striped 2
- Gibon Bold Outline
- Gibon Bold Shadow
- Gibon Bold Shadow Striped 1
- Gibon Bold Shadow Striped 2
- Gibon Heavy
- Gibon Balloons
Gibon™ Preview
Here is a preview of how Gibon™ will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.
